Sentences with phrase «box flight recorders»

The texts that are such a crucial part of Johnson's work are sometimes written by him and at other times appropriated from disparate sources such as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity autobiographies, black box flight recorders, and rock lyrics.

Comedian George Carlin once said, «If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?»

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These black boxes, or formally known as flight data recorders, record the... read more →

The voice and flight data recorders, known as black boxes, were recovered from a depth of about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) in the Mediterranean.

Smarter black boxes Why do aircraft flight recorders not routinely stream their data via satellite to servers on the ground?

Questions on the safety of modern aircraft raised in your report on the loss of an airliner in the mid-Atlantic on 1 June may never be answered if the plane's «black box» flight recorders can not be found (13 June, p 19).

In addition, the 777's cockpit voice and flight data recorders — the «black boxes» — each include a «pinger», an ultrasonic acoustic transmitter that, for up to 30 days after submersion, can be picked up by ship or submarine sonar receivers, allowing them to home in on the source.

Australia's global achievements include the «black box» flight recorder, now on every airplane, the annual «Earth Hour Initiative» and even the invention of wi - fi.

Airplane «black boxes», or flight recorders (FDRs, CVRs, and CVDRs), are not actually black but bright orange (to make them easier to locate at the crash site).